The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-28
DIVINE HEALING.
What Member of DR.. Axson's Church
Saws About 1t.

DAYS ADOuU
Editor Morning NetOs: l frequently
read attacks on divine healing, or 'faith
cure" as it is called, and it seems so sad
that any one would say anything that might
hinder poor suffering soul from claiming
Gods promises for the body, and reminds
me of story read of young man who
attended city church for year, and then
said to his pastor: 81 want to present you
with my Bible" sob, thank you; but |
have Bibles enough" "But I want to give
you mine" He took it and found it was all
cut up. what does this meanp'
''Well, 1 have cut out prom
ises that you said didn't
apply to these days. This is all there is left
of it." The command and promise in James
v, 14-15, is as explicit and clear as any we
find in the word of God. James was the
presiding officer of the mother church in
Jerusalem, one who could speak with au-
thority He transmits the apostolic gifts
to the elders, the ordinary and permanent
officers of the church. The time of the
commission was not at the beginning, but
the closing of the apostolic age. The means
were ''prayer of faith" ''anointing with
oil" especial symbol of the Holy Spirit in
the name of Jesus, and the Lord will raise
him up is promised. OF course, this was
not medical amounting, for it was
not to be applied by a physician,
but an elder, and naturally must
be the same amounting of which we read in
connection with the healing Of disease by
the Apostles. The Greek church still re-
taills this ordinance James makes a clear
distinction between sickness and other suf-
fering. We see from verse 13-that the di-
rectiQns given there are different from those
given for Sickness in the latter, verses IA, Is,
he tells us what to do that we may be deliv-
cred from it; while with respect to all other
sutferings he exhorts us to endure them with
patience. As relates to the person of our
Lord we know how much He suffered, we
do not read that He was ever sick, and the
same Redeemer who gave to each one a
cross to bear, healed ali who were sick, who
were brought to Him. In no case did He re-
quire of the sick that they should recognize
Gods will in their sickness and endure it
patiently.
Our Saviour left the double commission,
"preach the gospel, heal the sick, and he
said, HE is the same yesterday and to-day,
and forever We are still in the age of
Christ and Christianity, and that was the
age of miracles and healing. This gospel
of healing we know was in the church for
nearly 400 years, and only disappeared
when the corruption of the Ronish apostasy
began to destroy all faith and purity. 1t
has been revived since the Reformation in
all parts of the church, and may be ex-
pected especially to mark the last days lin
which we are now living,) before our Lord
comes. Among these witnesses to healing
through the prayer of faith" are found
ministers of the gospel of the highest stand
ing in their respective churches, eminent
physicians and surgeons in regular practice.
educated consecrated men and women
in the most respectable positions in social
life. Yes, there are thousands all over this
land, and even in foreign lands, and their
numbers increase every day, who have been
healed of disease said to be incurable by any
medical or surgical means, through the
prayer of faith. How shall we know the
will of God in this matters How do we
know we are saved? BY Gods word. In
l. Peter, ii, "a, we read that HE bare our
sins in his own body on the tree Parallel
passage Matt. viii, 49, II: "He healed all
that ware sick" Why? "1'hat it might be
fulfilled what was spoken by Isaiah: Him
self took our inflrmities and bare our sick
nesses.'" The death of Christ is set forth
in the fourth verse of the fifty chapter
of Isaiah, as being just as available through
faith for the health of the body as in the
fifth verse for the health of the soul.
1. Sickness came into the world through
the fall. Therefore, we must look for its
removal through the Saviour
.. Sickness is declared, in Deut. xviii. =,
to be the curse Of the law. In Galatians
Christ is declared to have redeemed us from
the curse.
3. In Elk. XIV, %, God tells His people that
if they will walk in obedience He viii keep
them from disease. II am the Lord that
healeth tkeen